DD is playing 18U, so some of the players have BF's so the boys will show up....once usually. After watching 2 days of softball very few boys will make an encore visit.
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Scarecrow
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Am I the only one that had Paul Harvey in my head reading this???
I've not had many people question all the time we spend with softball and what we're missing, but I have had some female relatives who are old-fashioned and question whether a girl should be spending so much time playing sports. If my daughter talks about having to bandage her knee or spraining her ankle, they question why she would want to play and why we put her through it. She has a grandfather in law who is a huge sports fan, and so I figured he'd want to hear all her tales from the diamond and see her play, but without him saying so, I sense that he's not as keen on girls playing sports as boys. I didn't anticipate some of the stereotypes that go with it. None of this really bothers me or us, but I do find it interesting. My wife is very independent and non-traditional, has a good career, etc., while most of the women on her side of the family always sought traditional roles. They think we're strange.
